The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-04

Of goods on the child's arm, package after
package, and some one said: 'This child
Ii being overloaded, and 20 much ought
not TO be put upon her." when the child
responded: "Father knows how much l
can carry;" and God, our Father, will mot
allow too much imposition ON his children.
In the day Of eternity it will be found
you had not one annoyance too many,
not one evaporation too many, not one
outrage too many. Your Heavenly Father
knows how much you can carry.
Again we ought not to allow the pas
sage of the sunset hour before the dis
missal Of all our afYronts, because we
may associate the sublimest action
of the soul with the sublimest spec
tacle in nature. It Is . most delight
some thing to have our personal expert
ences allied with certain objects. There
Is tree or river bank where God first
answered your prayer. You will never
pass that place or think Of that place
without thinking Of the glorious com.
munion. There was some gate or some
room or some garden walk where you
were affianced with the companion who
has been your chief joy in life. You
never speak Of that place but with smile.
Some Of you have pleasant memories con-
nscted with the evening star, or the moon
in its first quarter, or with the sunrise,
because you saw it just as you were ar
irving at harbor after q tempestuous voy.
age.
Forever and forever, o hearer, associate
the sunset with your magnanimous. out
and out, unlim tied remuneration of all
hatreds and forgiveness of all foes. adj
m IL ic tho y,,no if3u,p1k of oil RI
practice, and at the start you may make q
tempt to practice it. Shakespeare wrote
ten plays before he reached Merchant of
Venice, twenty-eigh plays before he
reached Macbeth. And gradually you
will come from the easier graces to the
most difficult. Beside that, it is not mat
ter Of personal determination so much as
tho laying hold of the almighty arm
of God, who will tslp as to
do any thing we ought to do.
Remember that in all personal controver-
sizes the one least to blame will have to
take the first step at pacification. if 1t is
ever effective. The contest between
Eschines and Aristippus resounds
through history, but Aristippus, who was
least to blame, went to Eschines and
said: "Shall we not agree to be friends
before we make ourselves the laughing.
stock Of the whole country" And As.
chimes said: ''Thou art a far better man
than l. for began the quarrel; but thou
hast been the first in healing the breach. :"
And they were always friend afterwards.
So let the one of you that is least to blame
take the first step toward concilia-
tiOn. The one most in the wrong
will never take it. Oh, it makes
one feel splendidly to be able, by Gods
help, to practice unlimited forgiveness.
1t improves ones body and soul. 1t will
make you measure three or four more
inches around the chest, and improve
your respiration so that Won can take a
deeper and longer breath. It improves
the countenance by scattering the gloom
and Frightening the;forehead, and loosen
ing the pinched look about the nostril and
lip, and makes you somewhat like God
himself.
He is ornnipotence, and we can not copy
that. He is Independent of all the uni
verse, and we can not copy that.
He is creative, and we can not copy
that. He is omnipresent, and we can
not copy that. But he forgives with
a broad sweep all faults and all
neglects and all insults and all wrong
doing, and in that we may copy him with
mighty success. Go harness that subj me
action of your soul to an hour when the
gate of Heaven opens to let the day pass
into eternities, and some of the glories es.
cape this way through the brief opening.
We talk about the Italian sunsets. and
sunset amid the Apennines, and sunset
amid the Cordilleras. But l will tell you
how you may see grander sunset than
any mere lover of nature ever beheld;
that is by fiinging into it all your hatreds
and animosities, and let the horses of
lire trample them, and the chariots Of fire
roll over them, and the spearmen
Of fire stab them, and the beach
IF fire consume them, and the bill
ows Of fire overwhelm them. The
,ublimest thing God does is the sunset.
The sublimest thing you can do is forgive
ness. Along the glowing banks Of this
coming evening let the divine and the hui.
nan be concurrent.
Again: We should not let the sun 20
Town ON our wrath, because IL Is Of little
what the world says Of You or
loes to you when you have the affluent
God of the sunset as your provider and
defender. People talk as though 1t were
! fixed spectacle of nature and always the
Iame. But no one ever saw two sunsets
like; and If the world has existed six
years there have been about two
million one hundred and ninety thousand
,unsets, each Of them a. distinct from
III the other pictures in the gallery Of
he sky a. Titian's LAST Supper" Ru-
,ens' descent From tho Cross. /" Raphael's
TRANSPORTATION" and Michael Angeles
Last Judgment" are distinct from each
,ther. II that God Of such infinite
resources that he can put on the wall of
he sky each night more than the Louvre,
and the Dresden, and Venetian galleries,
III in one, is my God and your God, our
'rovider and protector, what is the use Of
'ur worrying about any human antsgon-
SIN! II we are misinterpreted, the God
Of the many.colored sunset can put the
light color ON our action. If He can
afford to hang such masterpieces
,ver the outside wall of Heaven
md have them obliterated in an hour, he
must be very rich in resources, and can
tut us through in safety. II all the garni-
ure of the western heavens at eventide is
nut the upholstery Of one Of tho windows
4 our future home, what small business
or us to be chasing enemies! Let not this
sabbath sun go down upon your wrath.
Mohammed said: "The sword - the key
4 Heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed
5 better than fasting, and wounds in tha
Day of Judgment respondent a. YER
million, and odoriferous as musk" But,
ny hearers, in the last day we
will find just the opposite of that
o be true, and that the sword never I'm.
ocks Heaven, and that he who heals
is greater than he who makes
hem, and that on the same ring-are two !
;eye: Gods forgiveness Of rs and our for.
,iveness of enemies, and these two keys
InlOck Paradise.